Banquet

St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet

The St. Paul Radio Club Banquet will be held April 28th, 2018 at 6:00 pm in the Anderson Student Center on the University of St. Thomas campus. The catering staff at UST do a wonderful job with dinner and this is a great deal for members.Our speaker will be Michael Ostlund, who will fill us in on some of the behind the scenes activity of Super Bowl LII. Michael has spent the better part of 43 years in Radio and TV Broadcasting, including 25+ years in Radio Network Operations and Engineering. Dinner will be 12.50 per person and tickets must be bought in advance. We will have some nice prizes to be given out by random drawing. Directions to ASC366/367 can be found below. Note these rooms are adjacenttothe rooms we used in the past.Menu details and reservation information are listed below as well. The due date for reservations is April 19th. Pay at the banquet.

“The Best Laid Plans….. of Super Bowl LII”

-or at least the ones we can tell you about…..

We all heard the hype about the Super Bowl LII and we saw the TV news shows from Nicollet Mall. And we may have even seen a few news reports about some of the security that went into the event, but what about the planning you didn’t hear about? My guess is that not many folks heard about the Amateur Radio Operators who manned a ‘Janitor’s Closet” to maintain emergency communications. And there were more planning groups that worked tirelessly for more than a year to ensure the safety and security of more than one million visitors and the event itself. And no one knew they existed. But they were an integral part of the event.

Michael Ostlund with Hennepin County Emergency Management will talk about some of the Emergency Management and Communications planning that most people didn’t hear about. As one of two Communications Coordinators for Hennepin County Emergency Management, Mike was on the front lines of the “Auxiliary Communications Planning” for HCEM for SBLII.

St Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet Details

When: Saturday, April 28thDoors open at 5:00, dinner served at 6:00 PM

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Directions to Banquet: From the Cretin-Vandalia exit on I-94, take Cretin Avenue south to the St. Thomas campus. The Anderson Student Center is on the northeast corner of SummitAvenue and Cretin. Parking for a limited number of vehicles is available in the Anderson Student Center Ramp (entrance on the west side of the building, off Cretin just north of Summit). Swipe a credit card at the entrance and the doors will open. You will repeat the process to exit (cost is 1.00/hr). If the student center ramp is full, the larger Anderson Parking Ramp is located one block south at the southwest corner of Cretin and Grand Ave. Other parking possibilities include on-street parking and various campus surface lots. Parking permits on campus are not enforced after 6 p.m. on Fridays (or on weekends)There is a drop – off circle near the west entrance to the student center (off Cretin, just north of Summit).Once inside the student center, take the elevators at the west end of the atrium to the third floor. The ASC rooms 366/367 will be to your left as you exit the elevator. Note these are adjacent to but not the same rooms we have used in the past.